#GamerGate Bingo is HERE!

The long wait is over! #GamerGate Bingo is here! Well, here, actually. Go there for your very own randomly generated bingo card, and get playing!

Also, I can edit the list of phrases that’s being used to make the cards, so if you have ideas for new phrases, or you want to improve the wording of one that’s already there, or you think one of them should be removed for being redundant or too obscure or too obvious or whatever, let me know in the comments!

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The comments section in the cracked article by Zoe is filled to bursting with hurt dudebros complaining about “bias” (in an opinion piece no less) and protesting that it’s totally a real issue (based on some guys post-breakup sour grapes) and nothing to do with misogyny-and also that the author is a cheater and a c**t!

You’d think they were trying to lampoon themselves and succeeding beautifully except they don’t display anywhere near that level of self-awareness.

Come back from other pockets of the Internet after a while to see Mammothers all over this GamerGate bullshit I was literally just ranting with my husband about. <3

Sure it has been mentioned, but the games-minded should know that even Tim Schafer (in short: a famous game dev who is a smidgen more on the indie side of things these days) is being blacklisted for calling out GamerGate on its steaming loads of horse crap. Great women devs/journalists and indie devs aren't enough for these gamers – they are even eagerly alienating one of the best of the industry, one who has had a huge role in producing several of the most classic of classic games! I'd find it hilarious if I weren't so sad as an appreciator of games myself :(.

And today a video produced by the American Enterprise Institute (Koch-funded think tank) starring Christina Sommers and arguing that video games aren't sexist is getting a huge GamerGate thumbs up. Now for this one, I can take that blob of information in its full ironic hilarity, though I refuse to watch the video itself. Maybe one of you will enjoy ripping it apart?

@teacat: I like how Anita Sarkeesian can’t criticize video games because “she’s not even a real gamer”, while they bask in validation from people who probably can’t even pronounce “Nintendo” (not that elderly conservatives can’t play video games, but do you think many of these guys do? Have the Gamergaters even bothered to ask?)

Speaking of “real gamers” the new Savior of Gaming Journalism (who never played a game in his life before this Sunday) less than four months ago blamed the Elliot Rodger shooting spree on video games:http://www.donotlink.com/bo8m

Paraphrasing TotalShitstainBiscuit (who loudly speaks on GamerGate’s side from his position of apparently being popular on YouTube, whatever), they claim you MUST NOT EVER DISMISS A VIDEO DUE TO ITS SOURCE CUZ WHAT IF YOU I AGREE WITH IT I MEAN DUHHH.

OK, so then #GamerGate agrees with a bunch of partisan probably not-gamers about games. Excuse everybody else for finding that odd…or funny.

Funny you bring him up, because #GamerGate brings up and compares Anita Sarkeesian to Jack Thompson on a regular basis. Despite, you know, it having nothing to do with sexism…

Which is ridiculous. What makes Sarkeesian’s (otherwise very mundane) critiques somewhat different is that they inherently implore games to deliver a stronger story and stronger characters to an audience – and medium – that deserves better. That most are [still] fun to play is explicitly taken as an assumption at the beginning of her video series. That her critiques mostly stem around misogynistic tropes is, well, the point of the series.

Thompson, on the other hand, came in assuming that the whole of gaming is a crapshoot that deserves to go down the drain. Legislatively.

Funny and sad how the #GamerGate gamers can’t, and won’t, see that. It is very evident from their critiques and friends alike that they would rather not have games taken seriously.

What makes Sarkeesian’s (otherwise very mundane) critiques somewhat different is that they inherently implore games to deliver a stronger story and stronger characters to an audience – and medium – that deserves better.

Maybe that audience does not deserve better.

Seriously, once I thought stagnated, overbudgeted crap like Final Fantasy and Call of Duty were killing gaming. Now I can’t wait for gaming to die. I’ll love to see the dudebros drowning in by-the-numbers crap as the companies shift their efforts into innovating for a less pathetic public.

Apparently one of the Gamergate dudebros Milo Yiannopoulos (sp?) has just published a dump of games journalists’ emails, including their private phone numbers. Because this is about ethical journalism.

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